US President Donald Trump
“Well, I don’t know if they’re real or not.” Whatever the case, the President of the United States ordered the Pentagon to release all files on extraterrestrials and alien life.
The President of the USA, Donald Trumpannounced that it will instruct US agencies, including the Department of Defense, to “begin the process of identifying and releasing” government files on extraterrestrials and alien life.
Donald Trump made the announcement in Truth Social, after having, on the same day, accused Barack Obama of having revealed classified information when, last week, the former president stated in a podcast that “aliens are real“.
“He wasn’t supposed to do that“, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, adding: “Made a big mistake“. According to , asked if he also believes that aliens are real, Trump replied: “Well, I don’t know if they’re real or not.”
In an interview released last Saturday. Former US President Obama told the podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen who believes that aliens are real. “, and are not being maintained in Area 51“, said Obama.
After the statements gained prominence in the media, Obama sought to clarify that considers it statistically probable that there is life beyond Earth, given the immensity of the universe. “There is no underground facility, unless there is a monumental conspiracy and that they hid it from the President of the United States.”
In a follow-up post on Instagram, Obama, who served as US president between 2009 and 2017, clarified: “I didn’t see any evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Seriously!”
Obama’s opening statements were made during a round of quick questions, in a “lightning round” format, on the podcast.
Nothing indicates that Obama relied on classified information when giving the interview. The BBC contacted Obama for comment.
For his part, Trump stated on Thursday, aboard Air Force One, that although many people believe in the existence of extraterrestrials, he never talks about the subject and “don’t have an opinion on this“.
A few hours later, he published in Truth Social that, “given the enormous interest demonstrated”, will endeavor to disclose files “related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), as well as any other information relating to these highly complex but extraordinarily interesting and important subjects.”
In the United States, the public interest in UFOs and extraterrestrial life has been on the rise, driven in 2017 by reports about a secret Pentagon program aimed at investigating testimony from pilots and other members of the U.S. military who claimed to have .
In 2022, Congress held the first hearings about UFOs in 50 years, and the Pentagon has promised greater transparency on the matter — creating an office dedicated to collecting reports of all UFO sightings by military personnel.
The following year, a committee of the US House of Representatives dedicated to the topic did not produce any major revelations nor did it confirm the existence of alien life.
In a 2024 report, the Pentagon stated there is “no evidence” that the North American government had ever encountered extraterrestrial life, concluding that the majority of UFO sightings corresponded to perfectly ordinary objects.
At the beginning of the month, the historic ““, which occurred 30 years ago in Brazil, reached the US Congress, where three congressmen listened, with “unusual attention”, to the report of a Brazilian neurosurgeon who described what he says was a direct contact with a non-human being.
